Maciej Hanski schrieb: > Thomas Zastrow napisa?(a): > >> Peter, you are right. It's again a problem of different resources in > >> different places ... a FAQ, a wiki, a documentation, ... also there is a > >> FAQ in the wiki.> > Could it be that it is time to clean up the parts of the >> Scribus website > and perhaps merge some of them into one ...? >> > Let me quote from the Wiki Main Page: > "The documentation available here has been contributed by Scribus usersfor > Scribus users and is not authorised by the Scribus team ? forofficial > documentation please see Scribus Online Documentation" > So the message is rather clear: "Hey, this is just a wiki, refer to > theofficial docs, if in doubt". Our Scribus Wiki is an highly > unofficial,highly dynamic, independent exchange platform which is driven > almostentirely by Scribus _users_ (like Christoph, Gregory, or Ludi, > myself,and recently yourself too, to name only a few). They've spent > hundreds(literally!) of hours of their time shaping it, writing wiki docs, > andwhat's perhaps even more important, encouraging other people to takepart, > to form a community around it. Now, at last, we've got a ScribusWiki > community, and I must say I consider it itself a big achievement,something > the Scribus team can be proud of. In the meantime, many ofthese people are > quite familiar with using Mediawiki (it was a majorobstacle at the beginning > more than 2 years ago), and are capable todevelop it in every direction they > desire. > Sorry for these overlong explanations, but they'll hopefully help you > tounderstand, why the official docs and the wiki are to be treateddifferently > and never merged. Either sites docs.scribus.net andwiki.scribus.net are > differently licenced, have different scopes andpurposes (the main purpose of > the wiki is to get Scribus users to helpeach other with their know how in a > more well formed and reusable waythan this mailing list), and are managed by > different people. > Besides, you've raised some valid questions about the structure of > theScribus wiki, but I'd rather discuss them within the Wiki (thediscussion > tab of the Main page or even a separate discussion article),and not on this > mailing list. Please contribute your proposals there, oreven help to > implement them. > cheersMaciej > OK ;-)
For me, it wasn't so clear that there is a clean distinction between Wiki and official doc. Thanx for the explanattion. Best, Tom -- ---------------------------- http://www.thomas-zastrow.de German Forum - DTP under Linux: http://www.opendtp.de ----------------------------
